clear diarrhea and vomiting

[heidiv]

As I was reading your story. It has brought back memories from when I brought Chloe home. She was amazingly small for a new kitten. I brought her into the vet for an overall check up and she was tested for everything and they found that she had a severe case of Coccida. We brought her home and started to treat her for the parasite and all of the same things started to happen to her. Lose of appetite clear diarrhea and she just kept going and going. So much that she was getting dehydrated from going so much. Eventually we had to take her in for dehydration and subcontainous fluids and antibiotics. It was really strange when we started to give her the antibiotics within 8 hours she snapped out of it. She still had the diarrhea but was wanting to eat and drink alot more. Plus your little kitty has gone through alot in the little time that you have had her. You can check it out I hope that I was some help. I know how you feel it doesn't take long for them to wrap themselves around your heart. I missed several days of work making her eat and drink. You feel so bad because you can see that they just don't feel well

[catnapper]

Gosh does this sound familiar. This was my life all last spring and Summer with Angel.

She had what is known as Campylobacter. Some vets argue that it is part of a normal GI tract in a cat. Others argue that it can multiply to a bad number which causes major problems. It is a cousin of the salmonilla family of bacteria. Like it would cause vomiting and diarrhea in us, it can cause it in cats if its grown at a high rate.

I'm sure you'll tell me the poo smells awful. Is it like nothing you've ever smelled before? The only way to detect it is by a direct fecal, where they take the sample straight from inside your kitty and immediately look at it under a microscope. It took me countless vets before I finally found one who did this test and as soon as she was on the proper antibiotics for this, she started to get healthy again.

Tell me, when you pick her up, does she "leak" poo? If so, you are experiencing exactly what I went through last summer. It was awful, and I did everything I could because I loved that little girl. It took MONTHS to diagnose this. I had vets actually flat-out accuse me of malnutrition and neglect. I had vets tell me I was nuts, that there was nothing wrong with her. I wold never want anyone to go through that ever. Please ask the vet to try the direct fecal test for campy. If they won't do it, find another.

Then go home and scrub those litterboxes. Dump the litter every night, scrub the boxes every night until the end of the antibiotics.... its what I had to do to finally get rid of it. You don't want to reinfect her. I kept having my cats reinfecting each other.